291397 - integrate Jesse Ruderman's buglist sorting script into Bugzilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151686

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

It should be possible to resort buglists without having to rerun the query. 
Jesse Ruderman's Greasemonkey script does just that.  We should incorporate it
into Bugzilla.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 151686, "sort buglist on the client rather than resubmit the query".

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

Attachment: client-side sorting v1

integrate's jesse's code, first cut.

i didn't put a mozilla mpl boilerplate on the javascript file as i'm not sure
what license jesse released his code under.

this works but isn't ready for review, as it has the severity, status and
resolution enums hardcoded (and it doesn't work on ie).

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I plan to make the code open-source under a license that will allow it to be
included in Bugzilla.  I also plan to add some setTimeouts to make it not hang
Firefox so badly as it sorts long lists.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

BugSort is now MPL.  See
http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/02/faster-bug-sort-user-script/.

Some things that would probably have to be done for BugSort to be incorporated
into Bugzilla:

1. Make sure it uses cross-browser DOM, etc.

2. Provide some way to change the default sorting method.  This could be a "Use
this sorting method for subsequent searches" button on resorted bug lists that
changes the cookie, or it could be a dropdown in the userprefs page.

3. Provide a "URL for this resorted list" link.

4. Make it sort the date, target milestone, and version columns better.

5. Find a way to display sorting arrows (e.g. \u25B2 and \u25BC) without
changing the column width.

Comment 5

[Joost de Valk]

I think i have a better script for this, just because it's easier to add. It's based on the kryogenix table sorting script. Look at it here: http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/ it's very inobtrusive in that it only requires loading the script, and giving a table a class "sortable". It's MIT licensed, don't think we'd have a problem there. This might not do the fancy things your script does, but i think it does the trick.

Comment 6

[Douglas Calvert]

We should be able to take care of sorting with one of the many ajax frameworks/toolkits. Here are examples of two approaches:

http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/tests/widget/test_SortableTable.html

http://openrico.org/rico/livegrid.page

I think it would be best to use one of the existing frameworks so that we do not have to reinvent the wheel and so that there is not a fragmented base of these features. The only thing that would need work is connecting the JS framework to the cookie that remembers the sort field...

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

As neither bug has seen any activity, in the interest of having only one bug, I'm duping this bug to the older bug.